Senior Design Engineer

Senior Design Engineer Birmingham

Qualifications

• Normally 5 years experience and normally chartered.
• Able to represent the practice at project level.
• Demonstrate ability to take responsibility for projects.​
• Ability to manage the design and construction stages of a project.

Business Development

• Starting to develop network of contacts.
• Be ambassadors for Company.

Project Role

• Management/financial awareness.
• Ability to supervise a small team of engineers and technicians.
• Role will normally be as Project Engineer on projects of various sizes.  On major/more complex projects could take the role of a Design Engineer.
• Be responsible for delivering work to a fee agreed with a Project Manager.
• Core responsibilities for the task include:-
• Task delivery to agreed deadline and fee.
• Task profitability.
• Task quality.
• Prepare client/project proposals.
• Present to clients.
• Negotiate fee proposals and requesting additional fees where possible.
• Construct project teams from internal and external resources.
• Procure project resources.
• Plan projects.
• Achieve 95% chargeable time.

Company Role
Have an understanding of our Business plan, mission statement and key challenges.

Have some understanding of company financial indicators, principles of share scheme and options schemes in operation.

Contribute to the development of company procedures by taking an active role in task groups.

Attend team meetings and play an active role in the development of procedures within your team.

Review and comment on company procedures using the feedback system.

Applying policies relating to health & safety, quality and training

Engineering Function

• Agree design philosophy/design fundamentals.
• Review and comment on deliverables produced by Engineers & Technicians at key stages through a project.
• Demonstrates all round technical competence.
• Have knowledge of concept design, buildability, detailed design, construction techniques, procurement routes, risk assessment and claim assessment.
• Have knowledge of analytical concepts.
• Have knowledge of our delivery in CAD standards and 3D working.

Behavioural
Be competent at influencing people (staff, clients).

Set an example to all staff by demonstrating compliance with the company’s procedures and policies and operate within the company controls.

Actively address problem issues, don’t criticise without presenting and pushing solutions.

Design Engineers
Understand design philosophy/design fundamentals.

Familiar with architects/service engineers/etc. drawings, specification.

Development of details.

Production of calculations.

Co-ordination with architect/service engineer information.

Behavioural
Set a good example to new graduates/younger engineers.

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